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Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be...

Sitting quietly in his room in an old people s home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn t want to begin. His one-hundredth birthday party to be precise. The Mayor will be there. The press will be there. But, as it turns out, Allan...

Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life he was also...

Shantaram introduced millions of readers to a cast of unforgettable characters through Lin, an Australian fugitive, working as a passport forger for a branch of the Bombay mafia. In The Mountain Shadow, the long-awaited sequel, Lin must find his way...

Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and an absent father, miraculously survives a catastrophe that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he os taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Theo is tormented...

The new Botswana book from bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, this is Mma Ramotswes fifteenth wonderful adventure.Even the arrival of her baby cant hold Mma Makutsi back from success in the workplace, and so no sooner than she becomes a...

America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In Whats Wrong with America, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution...

The car crash should have killed her. But rookie paramedic Peter Webster takes the emergency call, and helps the young woman, Sheila Arsenault, to survive. After the accident, she haunts his thoughts, despite his misgivings about getting involved with...

Follows-on from the hugely successful Scotland Street series, this time set in London and with a new cast of characters, including a literary agent, a wine merchant, an accountant, a nasty Lib Dem MP, his PA and a small dog in his prime. At least one...

Paperback edition of Shreves latest compelling novel, which explores the fragility of a new marriage. Geraldine and her new husband James travel to Kenya and are invited on a climbing expedition. There they are caught up in a horrific accident; in...

Inspired by a real house, this is the tale of the people that come and go from Landauer House over the years, as it passes from Czech to Russian hands. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, it follows Mawers previous novels The Gospel Of Judas, The Fall...

Among the well-to-do families of Jeddah, Palestinian-born desert guide Nayir is an outsider. But when Nouf, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy Saudi dynasty, disappears just before her arranged marriage, Nayir is the man her family trust...

To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear immune to the rollercoaster of strong emotions. But at 44 Scotland Street, as Matthew and Elspeth embark on the...

There are those that suggest merely to look at a childhood photograph of Adolf Hitler is sacrilege. It is to search for innocence within the pale blue eyes, and from that comes a journey of reasoning and justification for later events. Norman...

At the age of twenty-nine, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to find her footing again, she has answered an advertisement to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their...

Peter Bergen, author of Holy War, Inc. Deeply researched, well reported and full of interesting and surprising analyses. It demands to be read. Gavin Esler This is a must-read book for anyone interested in understanding our increasingly scary...

Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case - a man who has...

The key to contentment in the Scottish climate is the right attitude to rain - just as in life the key to happiness lies in making the best of what you have. Bruised in love by her faithless Irish husband, Isabel Dalhousie is a connoisseur of...

As an AmeriCuban who remembers her visits to Cuba as a small child, I was very touched to see on screen the Cuba that I knew was not just in my dreams. What an excellent job in picking places that can make you really think it was filmed in Havana!...

With his characteristic warmth, inventiveness and brilliant wit, Alexander McCall Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street, the Edinburgh townhouse. Six-year-old prodigy Bertie perseveres in his...